<aside> 👋🏾 Hello, and thank you for getting the Sunny Book Library.

If you have not done already, you need to first sign up for Notion. Afterwards, you see a button at the top right corner of this page saying “Duplicate”. This will add this template into your own Notion workspace. Once done, go ahead reading this page.

For you to get started, I prepared this overview to set up your new library and understand how Notion works.

However, if you want additional help with Notion and setting it up as your complete project management system, I highly recommend their guides https://www.notion.so/help/guides. Otherwise, you can also send me an email with any questions ([email protected]).

Let’s get started with your new Sunny Book Library, so you can better organise your books and notes about them.

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1. Add your books

First, a bit of background on how Notion works:

Notion’s main feature is databases, which are also the basis of this library workspace. Below, you can find a database called “All books”. This is the core of your library.

Within a database, you can create entries - one entry per book. I already added a few for you to get started. You can open these entries and add your notes about the book into the prepared database, as well as images, tables, links, pages, whatever you want really.

By clicking on the blue “New” button on the top right of the database or the row at the bottom of the database, you can add a new entry to your database.

Within a database entry, you can see different columns, so-called properties. By filling in these properties, you add more information to your database entries.

Database properties are of different types: Text, Numbers, Select, Date, Checkboxes... We will go through some types throughout this page.

Create a new database entry for a book that you’re currently reading and click on the empty boxes within the columns to fill in the details of your book.

• Book title → Add the book title as published
• Date found → The date and time is added automatically when you create a new entry for a book.
• Status → Select an option representing how far in the book you are: To buy, To read, Reading, Read, Stopped.
• Publication year → Select the year in which the book was released. By clicking on the three dots right next to the year’s name, you can edit or delete them.
• Liking → How much did you enjoy this book? Select 1-5 diamonds according to your opinion about the book.
• Author → Select an option representing the author of the book: I created a few for you already, but you can easily create a new author. By clicking on the three dots right next to the author’s name, you can edit or delete them.
• Personal development → Select the option when the book is about a personal topic. I created a few for you already (Fiction, Meditation, Project Management), but you can easily create a new topic. By clicking on the three dots right next to the topic’s name, you can edit or delete them.
• Scientific topic → Select the option when the book is about a scientific topic. I created a few for you already (Microbiology, Physics), but you can easily create a new topic. By clicking on the three dots right next to the topic’s name, you can edit or delete them.

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1. Sort and filter your books according to content, status or authors

By clicking on the + next to the “All books” tab, you can create a new view of your database.